Discovery certificate for object 2020aen
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 59064 [ 2020TNSTR.177....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-18 14:36:10
Sender: ZTF (ZTF_AMPEL_NEW)
Reporting Group: ZTF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

J. Nordin, V. Brinnel, M. Giomi, J. van Santen (HU Berlin), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron, S. Schulze (Weizmann) on behalf of ZTF report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020aen
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aagnbfu
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:12:20.054 (258.0835576) DEC = +63:24:06.83 (63.4018982)
Discovery date: 2020-01-18 12:52:14.000 (JD=2458867.0362847)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-18 12:52:14.000
Flux: 19.42 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-06 13:13:31
Limiting flux: 19.5315 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020aen